How Does Jesus Love Us?

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Thank you, Dan. If you would, you could turn it in your Bible to John 13. If you do not have a Bible with you today, there should be a Bible. They're kind of sporadically located around. You can also find it on your phone. We are going to be in John 13. We're going to start in verse 3. When my wife and I got engaged in May of 2000, all of that went really I asked her to marry me, she cried and said yes, everything was cool. But her birthday, that was a few weeks before that in April, was a disaster. And that was my fault, 150%. Because I thought it would be a good idea to make her birthday gifts have a wedding theme. What could go wrong? So it's like something borrowed, something blue, all of that. So I gave her four gifts in a row that were all like that. But I did not, because I was dumb, did not put it together that I should propose at the end of that.

That I was creating some kind of expectation that she would think that I was asking her to marry her. So you can see where it went wrong. So for Christie, the scene was set, right? I mean, it was laid out. I was so unaware, but I was about to hit it out of the park if I would have just had a ring and popped the question. And so she's like, OK, the scene said, Drew's going to ask me. I'm going to say yes. And then all it was was, happy birthday. Let's just say we were both confused and disappointed in that moment. All's well that ended well three weeks later or so. We were engaged. And I think I did it OK. I asked her to marry me in a good capacity. Yeah, so as she said yes to that, we've since worked it out. It's almost 22 years ago now, 21 and 1.5. Why, why were we both confused? Why were we both disappointed? It's because when you do something important, When you have something important to say, you really want the scene to match the moment.

You want the scene to match the moment. In a marriage proposal, obviously, you want the scene to match the moment. You see people that post pictures of their marriage proposal and it's on a mountain top or on this beautiful bridge or in New York City or something. They set the scene. If you're asking her to marry you in a Dairy Queen parking lot, you might have missed the memo on that. That's not where you do it. You see this, not just with marriage proposals, you see this with baby announcements. You even see it with something like a big job hire. You don't just drop into the text, hey, got my dream job. Even bad news, you need to set the scene for it. Today, what we find in John 13 is we find Jesus setting the scene. He has something important to say. He's looking toward something that will happen and he is setting the scene and he's being really intentional about it.

And so we're going to pick it up in John chapter 13 verses 3 and 4, where Jesus is setting the scene. So it says Jesus, Jesus, knowing that the father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments and taking a towel, he tied it around his waist. So if you are a first century disciple and you see Jesus doing this, you understand he's dressing like a servant. That's what a servant would do. you. That's how a servant would dress. They would just have kind of the undergarment on, right? Like something to cover up here, but then you'd have a towel around your waist. You tie that around your waist. And what he does, what he does is he begins to wash their feet. Now, that's just what the Scriptures say, wash their feet. But I want you to just take a second and

I want you to imagine what the disciples' feet looked like, smelled like, felt like, okay? Because they're walking through sticky mud, first of all. They're walking through sticky mud. Even if it's just dust, the sweat from their feet is mixing with the dust and it's becoming cake mud on their feet, in their sandals, okay? The things that they're stepping on, it's not always mud. And sometimes that gets around the sandal onto the foot. Okay. This is gross. This is disgusting. It's between their toes. I mean, imagine you've worn a sandal all day and you've been walking outside all day. Then you take the sandal off. You don't want to look at the sandal. Okay. There's things that people should not see that are in that sandal. Okay. That's what Jesus is cleaning off of his disciples feet. He is taking the absolute lowest job of a servant. Only the new servants would do this. Only the servants dumb enough to say,

Oh, I'll wash the feet. Those are the only ones that get to do that. Okay. Jesus is taking that job. And in John 13, 12, so, so go back, go down to verse 12. Jesus says, wash their feet. And when he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place. So Jesus pretty much went through a costume change. Okay, he dresses like a servant, he acts like a servant. He puts everything back on, takes his place again. And he said to them, do you understand what I have done to you?

Do you grasp what has just happened? Did you notice all of the grime and the funk that I had to scrape off your feet with my own hands. Did you notice that I got the stuff that you were hoping or you were planning on the newbie servant? You were planning on that person getting that. You know, in our family, we have a dog and when you were in the kitchen and you are preparing a sandwich or something and you drop something on the floor, what do you do? You call the dog, right? You call the dog. Imagine calling Jesus in when there's food on the floor. That's what that is. That's what that is. Jesus took the form of a low, low servant, something we would relegate to a dog. This is really similar to what Jesus has done here. And he says, do you understand? And I imagine that the room is really quiet, because we don't get a response from the disciples. He says, do you get this?

Do you understand what's just happened? Do you understand what I've done for you? And so into that quiet room Jesus keeps going verses 13 to 14. Jesus says, you call me teacher and Lord and you're right for so I am. If I then, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet you also ought to wash one another's feet. So he said you call me teacher and Lord these are titles that Jesus has earned 100%. Jesus is right to say, I'm your teacher. Jesus is saying, I'm greater than you. I have more authority than you. I have the upper hand in any situation that we are in. Yet, I have done the lowest job. Jesus continues 15, 16. Says, for I have given you an example in verse 15 that you you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

And what Jesus is telling his disciples, and I really want to catch this hard, he's saying be prepared to do the lowest job consistently. Jesus is not saying, for example, this might happen one day and when it does, you have to do the lowest job, no. Jesus is saying that your lives will be marked by loving, sacrificial, dirty service. And we know this because Jesus is setting the scene in particular. He's saying to them, I am giving you a pattern to follow. Later in the same chapter, Jesus explains this pattern further. He explains why he's setting the scene in verses 34 and 35 of John 13. And he's talking to his disciples later in the chapter. He says, a new commandment I give to you that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this, all people know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another.

Jesus saying, just so you and I, just so we understand the gravity, put this down as a new commandment. Love like I have love, which is very powerful after he washes their feet. Because what Jesus doesn't say, he didn't say love according to the information that I've discussed with you. He doesn't say, love according to the abstract concepts and principles that I've been kind of laying out and discussing and theorizing about. You remember all that stuff? Love according to those theories. He didn't pass on information in a classroom. Jesus said in particular, love just like I have loved you. Love just as I have loved you. to the disciples, he's saying in particular, you know it's possible. You know what it looks like because I've loved you. I want you to do the exact same thing. You know what it looks like. You know what my love seems like, feels like, looks

like. You know how it's demonstrated. But my question this morning is do we, do we know what that love looks like? Would we recognize loving somebody like Jesus loves them? And I want to try to envision this command. I want to really try to get our hands around this command to love as Jesus loves. And to do that, we need to look at a parable that Jesus tells in Matthew 18. If you want to turn your Bibles to Matthew 18, it's also going to be up on the screen. Matthew 18, we're going to start in verse 23. In your Bibles, this is a This is a parable called the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant. It's also called the Unforgiving Servant. It's called a couple of different names. And in this parable, I believe we get a glimpse of what it is to love like Jesus loves. Okay, Matthew 18, 23 is where we're gonna begin. Jesus says, therefore, the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who

wished to settle accounts with his servant. Jesus often talked about what the kingdom of God was like, and here, it is like a king that wants to settle debts. A king that wants to settle debts. And as Jesus builds the situation in the next couple of verses, he focuses on one servant in verse 24 who owed 10,000 talents. 10,000 talents. How much money is 10,000 talents? What is a talent? To get a sense of it, I want to translate that talent into years of work. Just years of work. So to just kind of make the equivalent. So 10,000 talents then is the equivalent of 100,000 plus years of work. 10,000 talent is equivalent to lifetimes, thousands of lifetimes of work. For comparison, that work today would be roughly 25 billion. And I'm erring on the side of caution. It's definitely more than that. But it's at least 25 billion. perspective on that, it's George Lucas's net worth times four. Okay, so you write out and

plan out and shoot and sell the Star Wars saga, then do that three times more, you've got $25 billion. What Jesus is doing when he says 10,000 talents, Jesus is purposely using an absurd amount of money. Absurd. Jesus wants us to understand as he's telling this parable, this debt is not, it's crushing, it's generational debt. It's absurd debt. The servant in here in this parable, his wife and his children and his grandchildren are effectively going to be sold into slavery forever to pay this debt. He will never get out of this debt. 10,000 talents is not something that you pay off quickly. So we pick up in verse 26 and the servant begins to feel that weight and the servant begins to say to the master, he falls on his knees serving the fell on his knees and he implored him, have patience with me and I will pay you everything. Listen to the delusion. I will pay you everything

Really? Do you have a hedge fund in your pocket? You're gonna write Star Wars four times over? There's simply no way, none, that the servant is going to pay any of that back. The math just doesn't work. There's no way. In fact, in fact, the king will likely never see 1% of that return in his lifetime. There's no way the king is getting 10,000 talents back. So, what happens? Verse 27, the king, out of pity for this servant who can't pay anything back, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. And for the king here, for the master, forgiveness costs roughly $25 billion, okay? a pretty absurd amount, and the king is just going to forgive it. That alone should impress us. That should help us understand. However, for the servant, it's more than that. It's actually worth more than $25 billion, because for the servant, it's new life. It's unbelievable grace.

It's over the top. There's no way he could pay back. The servant knows that, even though he's lying through his teeth and saying, I'll just give me more time, I'll pay you back." And I don't know what he had in mind, but it might've been to run away. There's no way he's gonna pay that back. The king spends 25 billion to forgive him. The servant though gets way more than that in a new life. But the parable's not over. The next verse actually, verse 28 says, "'But when that servant," the forgiven servant, "'When that servant went out, He found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. And seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, pay what you owe. Probably through gritted teeth. Again, denarii, okay, that's the plural of denarius. Let's get some perspective. A hundred denarii is equivalent to four months worth of work.

Okay? Now, if somebody owed you $15,000, $30,000, that's pretty significant, right? Four months of work. I mean, that adds up. It's not a small amount. It's somewhat significant. But really, we're supposed to see the irony immediately, right? The servant who received grace not only has no grace for a fellow servant, but he begins choking him and he throws him in jail. Forgiven servant throws the other servant in jail until he paid him back. But then the master finds out, the other shoe drops, verse 32 and 33. Then his master summoned him and said to him, you wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. And should you not have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you. Jesus tells us this parable for us to see three things at once. He wants us to see our crushing generational sin debt, one that we could never pay off. He wants us to see, number two, overwhelming, undeserved grace.

And number three, he wants us to see the deep cavernous irony of loving people less than Jesus loves you. When we see all three at once, We will begin to grasp what Jesus was saying when he said, love other people as I have loved you. We really do get the sense of what kind of love Jesus loves us with, what magnitude of love Jesus loves us with. So let's make sure that we see all three at once. I wanna tell you a story. In Japan in the 1990s, there were many estates just like this. They were abandoned family estates. There were families that couldn't pay on the estates that they had inherited because tax was really high. So what Japan started doing, they came out with 100-year home loans. 100 years, which means that it became legal to actually put your descendants in debt before they were born. Imagine being 10 years old, and not only you don't get to choose your house,

ever, but you're going to spend your whole life paying on this debt. And so will your kids. It's always going to be something that you pay on. Yeah, maybe the home loan is going to change at some point, but you're still going to be paying an exorbitant amount of taxes in Japan. A hundred year loans. We are all born, born into sin slavery. Let me say that again. We, you and I, everybody, we're all born into sin slavery. We have a problem with sinning. We hurt ourselves. We hurt other people. We are selfish.

And it doesn't matter who it would benefit. And if we weren't, we are. We are both victims of that sin slavery and we are perpetrators of that sin slavery. The result of all of this victimization and perpetration, the result of all of that is crushing generational debt that we can never pay off. It is an absurd amount that you owe to the creator of the universe that you can get on your knees and say, I'll pay you back. But there's no way around it. It is a gaping hole. It is a bottomless pit. You can't throw a few dollars down there. You can't throw a few million dollars down there. You're never going to pay it off. So we've got crushing debt, crushing generational debt. I want you to hold that in your mind. Second thing we need to hold in our mind is the grace. There's a great picture of this grace in and Victor Hugo's famous novel, Les Miserables, where we find a recently released convict, Valjean.

Valjean finds refuge in a church house. He barely knows it's a church. There's a bishop there who welcomes Valjean and treats him with extreme dignity, really loves him. And this is after Valjean, couldn't find any other place to stay. He finally finds refuge, this bishop welcomes him, and he stays the night, and he's warm, and he's well-fed, and all of that. I mean, he is treated well, especially for being in a recently released convict. However, just before leaving, Valjean cannot help himself. He sees two full silver candlesticks, and he says, I could get a lot of money for those. So he steals them from the bishop and he leaves.

And in the middle of or near the beginning of Les Mis, and if you've never seen Les Mis, great, great movie to watch, highly recommended, great book to read, highly recommended. What happens is after Valjean steals those two candlesticks, he is caught. The authorities find the two candlesticks in his back, bring him back to the church house and back to the bishop, and he's there before the bishop and the bishop says, oh, there must be some mistake. Those were gifts. I gave those two candlesticks to him. The bishop lied to the police for Valjean. He covered for him and gave him the candlesticks on top of covering for him.

Those are things that Valjean could have never earned. He could have never paid back the bishop for what he gave him. And that grace, the story of Les Mis is that grace completely undoes and builds back up the character of Valjean. The grace completely undoes him and completely builds him back up. You and I, all of us here, are the recipients of overwhelming, undeserved grace. And our only response, and I really want you to catch this, our only response is to take it or leave it. We actually can't earn it and we actually can't spoil it. Let me say it again. We either, it's A or B. It's binary here. Okay, I know that's not in vogue, but definitely binary choices. You either take it or you leave it. You actually cannot earn it. There's no way you can earn that back. And you can't spoil it. There's nothing you can do to take that offer off the table, do you understand?

There's no, there's, it's not, it's not relegated to people that are sort of good, or people that are moral, or people that have it messed up in a particular way. It really is for everybody. And it's the scandal of grace, right? It's people that don't deserve it, which is all of us. But even people that don't even seem like they deserve it, they get it. You can't spoil it. It's just there sitting on the table, waiting for you to either take it or reject it. And so have it in your mind now, crushing debt, we got crushing debt, overwhelming grace, we got overwhelming grace. Now we need to grasp the irony of showing people less grace than you have been given. It's a simple irony. It's a simple irony of holding people to standards that we did not and cannot keep. It's the irony of becoming exactly like the forgiven servant who didn't forgive,

where we hang on, we hang on to this hurt, right? We were hurt. We were wronged and we hang onto that hurt. And we never think to ask ourselves, have we never wronged someone? Have we never been forgiven for something that we did on purpose? And our mindset is, and it really does put blinders on it, our mindset is they've wronged me and they need to know.

They've wronged me and they need to know. They gotta pay. They gotta see what they did was wrong. They gotta grovel before me. I mean, you've got the whole scenario played out in your head. I'm gonna hang on to this hurt until it's made right. Until they ask for forgiveness. until they say they're sorry. But what we miss is the exact same plight from other people that we've wronged. We miss the exact same plight. We are too focused on our own pain. And we do the same thing. When we feel we have been betrayed, we are suspicious of people.

We act like we have never acted in our own interest at the cost of another's interest. We act like we have never chosen our own benefit to the neglect of other people benefit. We act so self-righteous in our own mind, we get to be suspicious of people because we were betrayed. Or if you feel like you were left out or you missed out, you're jealous of other people. You're like, oh, so lucky. Look at what they get. You're like scrolling through Facebook and it's all your thinking. Have you never though, have you never received something you didn't earn? Have you never gotten more than somebody else for doing the exact same thing or sometimes less? Has that never happened to you? That's how we act though. Whenever we feel like we've missed out, we're jealous of other people. We've ever been ostracized or made fun of, we get really prickly and defensive. But my question, have you never ostracized someone?

Have you never said something that made somebody else feel dumb? Is that you? Are you on the on the self-righteous mountain top? No, nobody's there. I'm not there either. It's probably a pretty lonely place. But that's how we get. When we've been wrong, when we feel left out, when we feel ostracized, when we feel like we're not getting what everybody else is getting, what do we do? We focus on ourselves, we focus on our own pain, on our own frustration, and we write this narrative and everybody else is the enemy. So we feel righteous whenever we hang onto a hurt. We feel righteous when we are suspicious of people, when we are jealous of people, when we are prickly and defensive. We feel completely 100% justified, but we can't, we just miss the fact that we have been given $25 billion worth of forgiveness.

We just miss it. It's not like if it was a snake, it would have bit you. It's like if it was a train, it would have run over you. You just missed it. It's an ironic thing to do to hold people to standards that we cannot and did not keep. We forget that we've acted wrongly. We forget that we've acted selfishly, that we've received things that we didn't earn. We forget that we've ostracized people, that we've said things that we didn't mean. We forget all those things and it's ironic. The reason it's ironic is because Jesus loves us from the exact opposite direction. It's the exact opposite. Jesus forgives us our debts against him first. Jesus loves us by sacrificing himself, even when we didn't know there was a problem. Have you ever done that? You ever been in a relationship and you said, you know what, I'm just gonna do this for them and maybe they'll notice.

I'm just gonna do the dishes for Christie, This may or may not have happened. I'm just gonna do the dishes for Christie and she'll notice. By the way, she always notices. But in my head, I'm like, I'm just gonna do the dishes and maybe they'll notice. Okay, I barely wanna do that for dishes. I couldn't fathom actually sacrificing my own life. Just hoping she'd notice.

But that's what Jesus did. That's how Jesus loves us. Jesus loves us in a way that moves first. Loves first, apologizes first, makes amends first. That's the kind of love that we should show one another. That's the kind of love that Jesus shows us. And he spells it out for his disciples. Out of the metaphor, back to Jesus and the disciples. I wanna kind of step into John 15 though. I wanna move a little bit ahead. Jesus spells it out for his disciples. Again, he repeats the command from a few chapters before in John 15, 12, and 13. It's just up here, and we're not gonna be in John 15 for any longer, but he says, this is my commandment. So he's reminding them of the commandment, verses 34 and 35, this is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater, he adds to it here, greater love has no one than this, that someone laid down his life for his friends.

So I want you, I want you and I to kind of go through this, I want you to see your debt. Crushing generational debt you can never repay. 25 billion dollars. I want you to see the overwhelming grace. You just didn't deserve it. You're the ones with candlesticks in your bag and you're being forgiven. And I want you to see the irony. I want you to see the irony of holding all of it on and just trying to make somebody pay. And I really want you to see that is the unforgiven servant choking out his fellow servant because he wouldn't pay him back what he owed him. And then I want you to see what he talks about here, greater love, no one in this, that someone laid down his life for his friends. I want you to see the need for a decision on your part to lay down your life for the Lord. I want you to see that. This is how we're celebrating Easter today. This is how Easter begins.

Easter begins when Jesus makes this conscious decision. And we talked about it last week. He makes this conscious decision to lay down his life. It's not just serving, it's not just doing hard work. It's actually laying down your rights, laying down your privileges, laying down your life for another person. You, you, must decide to lay down your life. Easter begins with laying down your life, where you let go of the hurt that others have inflicted upon you, even though they may never know what they did. You let go of the way that a trusted person betrayed you. You let go of the jealousy. You let go of the facade that you are okay. You let go of that. You lay all of that down. You lay down the pride. You lay down the pain, you lay down the suffering, you lay down the martyr status, you lay down the victim status, you lay all that down, lay down your life. I want you to think about what if you were a friend of the forgiven servant in the parable.

Let's say the forgiven servant, you're his friend and you're in the moment with him. He has just been forgiven $25 billion, and he is in the middle of choking out this fellow servant. What would you say to him? Well, I imagine it'd be something like, let the debt go, bro. Let it go. Let it all go. It's not worth it. And we might even try to motivate him. We might say, look at all you just got. This is, we might say, this is not worth it. What you're doing is not worth it. We might even say something like, Think of all this new life that awaits you. Think of everything that's in front of you. Don't worry about choking this guy out. Eventually, our motivation would turn into warning. We would begin to say, look, you need to think about what the master's gonna do whenever he finds out.

If we're a friend of that servant, choking out the other servant, we begin warning them and we begin to say, do you think this is going to end badly for you? Kind of use the question to insert the idea, you know? You think this is gonna be horrible? And then we might even guess it, we might even say, listen, hey, what if the master treats you the same way?

What if the master treats you the same way? That's exactly what happens in Jesus's parable. And it ends this way, Matthew 18, 34 and 35. In anger, his master delivered him, the forgiven servant, to the jailers until he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you If you do not forgive your brother from your heart, listen, this is not a simple threat. This is a logical conclusion. If you cannot, simply cannot extend grace to another person,

it is only because you have not grasped the grace that is extended to you. Let me say that again. You're only, you're only block in extending that grace to another person. Your only block is because you haven't received the grace for yourself. Because if you have, if you have received that kind of grace, if that kind of grace is on your mind, if you understand the crushing debt, if you understand the overwhelming grace that corresponds with that, then you understand that you need to extend that grace to somebody else. Lest you be like the forgiven servant Easter begins When we lay this stuff down we lay down our lives sacrificially, but Easter doesn't end that way Easter ends with a promise

Easter ends with a promise Jesus commands us to let it all go to love people sacrificially just like he does and honestly If that's where we ended today, that's kind of a heavy burden Hey, go love people like Jesus. Okay, I just failed on the drive home failed again, Jesus doesn't just command us to let it all go, to love people like He loved. Jesus also promises that we will receive new life just like He did. Today we celebrate the resurrection from the dead. If death can't beat us, nothing can beat us. Today we celebrate the promise that is enacted after we lay our life down sacrificially. The story of Easter is not simply that Jesus did something difficult, so we need to do difficult things too. That's not even the gospel. That's not even, that's not really even Bible. Easter, the gospel, is the story of Jesus sacrificing himself so that new life could be available to all. Jesus says to each of us, love like I have

love you, the only way forward then is to lay your life down, let go of the hurt. Say yes to Jesus, say yes to undeserved grace, say yes to the forgiveness of your own debt. But when we lay down our lives for Jesus, when we do let it go, the promise, the promise that we have is that it will always come back to us as new life. It doesn't mean we get, you know, all the money that we give away, we get back. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm saying that that sacrifice always turns into new life, that it's not just letting go of hurt, but it's also experiencing the freedom that comes with that to forgive other people. It's not just letting go of hurt, it's also knowing the joy of blessing somebody else. Today, you can make that decision. What I want to do, as I'm going to call up Dan and say, you guys come up. And just as Dan plays softly, I want to lead you through guided prayer.

And all that is, all that means is that you pray and I kind of help give you a few words and a few prompts to think through. I want you to pray. And so really, just I want to encourage you bow your heads with me now and let's pray together. The first thing I want you to pray for is I want you to pray, I want you to ask Jesus to show you where there is hurt.

Jesus, show me where I'm hurting. As he begins to show you that, I want you to begin to identify and ask the Lord to show you how you are holding on to that. Who in your life are you trying to make pay? Who do you think owes you? Now I want you to pray for forgiveness from Jesus. say, Lord, forgive me for trying to make that person pay. Forgive my debt. Lastly, I want you to pray for the grace to forgive that other person. If you're done praying, you can pick your head up. We are gonna sing as we do. I'm gonna be right up here. If there's something that you wanna pray for, if there's something that you need to work out, if you wanna talk through something, please come forward and see me. I'll be sitting, like I said, right up here.

And I just wanna encourage you, make that decision today. If there's a decision that you need to make to lay your life down, just know it's not gonna be empty. It comes with the promise of new life. And that's what we're here for, man. We are a bunch of people who have been forgiven that are walking in new life. So I wanna encourage you to make that decision. As we sing, would you stand? I hear the Savior say, Thy strength indeed is small, Child of weakness, watch and pray, Find in me Thine all in all. Jesus paid it all and all to him I owe. Stim had left a crimson stain, he washed it white as snow. But now indeed I find Thy power and Thine alone Can change the leper's spots And melt the heart of stone And Jesus paid it all and all to him I owe Seeing had left her crimson stain He washed it white as snow And when before the throne I stand in him complete Jesus died my soul to save, my lips shall still be, and Jesus paid it all, and all to Him I owe.

And sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow. And raise this life up from the dead O Praise the one who bid my debt And raise this life up from the dead O Praise the one who paid my debt O Jesus, I paid it all And up to him I owe Stare had left her crayons unstained He washed it white as snow